7:4 And [there were] windows [in] three rows, and light [was] {c} against light [in] three ranks.
(c) There were as many and like proportion on the one side as the other, and at every end even three in a row one above another.
7:4 Against light - One directly opposite to the other, as is usual in well - contrived buildings. In ranks - One exactly under another.
7:1-12 All Solomon's buildings, though beautiful, were intended for use. Solomon began with the temple; he built for God first, and then his other buildings. The surest foundations of lasting prosperity are laid in early piety. He was thirteen years building his house, yet he built the temple in little more than seven years; not that he was more exact, but less eager in building his own house, than in building God's. We ought to prefer God's honour before our own ease and satisfaction.
